No such thing as far as I know.

LPT: good cops are actually hired every year, in a specific date. Bastards in the other days.

That date is the 30th of February, by the way.

Seafood with lots and lots of grating cheese.

Thanks! Glad it was enjoyable.

I know a few in Portuguese. Most of them are… well, bad. Dad joke tier*.

P: Por que chama-se “umbigo”? R: Porque só tem um. Se tivesse dois, seria “doisbigo”.
Q: Why is it called “belly button” (umbigo)? A: Because you only got one (um); if you got two (dois), it would be [non-existent word, roughly “belly buttwo”].

P: Que palavra com oito letras continua tendo oito depois de tirar quatro? A: “Biscoito”.
Q: Which eight-letters word still has eight (oito) after you remove four letters? A: “Biscoito” (biscuit or cookie, depending on dialect).

P: Por que o três e o sete não se casam? A: Porque são primos.
Q: Why don’t the three and the seven marry? A: Because they’re cousins / primes (both “primos”).

• Toc, toc. Knock knock
• Quem é? Who’s it?
• Vinte. Twenty.
• Que vinte? Twenty what?
• Vim te dizer para abrir a porta. I came tell you to open the door.

Note: “vinte” /vĩte/ = twenty; “vim te” /vĩ te/ = “I came” + “you” (object).

*they’re locally known as “piadinhas do tio do pavê” (layer cake’s uncle’s jokes). The name is also based on wordplay, albeit it doesn’t involve numbers:

• [Someone] Fiz pavê! I made some layer cake!
• [Someone else] É pavê ou para comer? Is it [a layer cake / to see it], or to eat it?

It relies on “pavê” /pa’ve/ (layer cake) being homophone with “para ver” /paɾa 'veɾ/~/pa’ve/ (to see), depending on how you pronounce the later.

Fair point - I completely forgot to take the 3D geometry into account. I guess this could be solved by either making both sp³ (sub the Si-O with Si-Cl) or both sp² (sub the H-O-Si with H-N=Si)? But then writing data becomes more complicated than just adding or removing hydrogens that, as you said, isn’t as simple as it looks like.

There are already several synthetic DNA base pairs that can be used instead of the naturally present bases.

Like the dNaM / dTPT3 pair, right? That’s perhaps more viable, at least to increase information density.

That’s amazing.

And it doesn’t even need to stop there. Sure, DNA is a convenient starting point - we have enzymes to read and write it, plus it’s a well-studied macromolecule. But that info doesn’t need to be encoded the exact same way biological beings do (a string of phosphate and sugar with pyrimidine and purine-based molecules attached to it). We could do something weird, like

That’s just an example using silicone, mind you. I think you guys get the idea - to use the biological molecules as inspiration, but not force ourselves to do things exactly like nature does.

I know, easier said than done, but think on the benefits of this approach:

• no risk of interference in biological organisms, like @[email protected] highlighted
• no risk of biological organisms interfering with it
• you can tweak information density, error, even longevity

Following quantitative logic, his Thomasness decreases with each part being replaced.

I must admit I never read Ariosto either. I started Orlando Furioso years ago, then dropped it after a few pages (it was uni times and I was burned out with literature).

It was, specially in two situations: wealthy = educated elites, and in the “border” between the Latin and Greek areas of influence.

This tomb fits both criteria. Strikçan is ~100km to the east and a bit to the north of Dyrrachium (modern Durrës), so it’s right in the border. And there was stuff like textiles woven with gold, that Gellianos guy was probably swimming in money.

Another site claims that “reports identify the second language of the inscription as Greek”.

Kind of a let-down to be honest. Latin or Greek plus another language (preferably a poorly attested one) would be way better.

This is just conjecture from my part, but I think the Etruscans’ fondness for the Gorgons as guardians was the original take of the myth, carried from Anatolia to Italy as the Etruscans settled there. And that the Gorgons as monsters are the result of Greeks vilifying the enemies’ sacred symbols.

Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Pokémon Emerald, and Fire Emblem.

Turn-based makes awful phone controls more bearable, and since those games are RPGs it’s easier to pause and resume without breaking the “flow” of the game.

Zero is a good number, indeed.

Don’t mind me, just fixing the rule:

At those times I’m really glad I prefer my desktop over my phone. When I get up and leave, I’m way less likely to check social media. (Granted, nowadays social media for me is just YouTube and Lemmy, but… you know.)

It’s a great MP3 player though. And gameboy.

Ouch. Throwing things goes too far.

I don’t really consider myself Machiavellian, but together, we are. Take that for what you will.

I think I get that feeling - it’s like we (humans) have a few personality traits that are incomplete, and almost never surface, except when someone else provides the missing piece.

As for exes: I flat out refuse to contact my ex-fiancée. I can deal with a lot of her personality issues individually (gaslighting, getting irrational when emotive, assumptiveness, not thinking things thoroughly, laziness…), but as a set? No thanks. Thankfully I don’t think she wants to contact me either.

Not surprised - Latin “sine” without became a mess in the descendants, that’s why they don’t resemble each other much:

• Portuguese (sem), Sardinian (sine) - plain inheritance
• Spanish (sin) - likely re-borrowed, otherwise it would be *sen
• Catalan (sense), Occitan (sense) and French (sans) - partially mixed “sine” with “absens” (absent, away, missing), so it got a random -s out of nowhere
• Italian (senza) - similar to the above with “absentia” (absence, awayness). -tia → -za is regular in IT.

It wouldn’t help much in this case as ES “sin” /sin/ and PT “sem” /sẽ/ already look quite different from each other.